Approaches to Metaphysics

1. Introduction: Taking Metaphysics Seriously
William Sweet

Part One. Issues in Classical Metaphysics

2. Does Being Have a Nature? (Or: Metaphysics as a Science of the Real)
Lawrence Dewan

3. Logic and Metaphysics in German Philosophy from Melanchthon to Hegel
Riccardo Pozzo

4. Metaphysics, Mathematics, and Pre-Established Harmony
Richard Feist

Part Two. Modern Challenges to the Scope of Metaphysics

5. The Integration of History and Metaphysics
Kenneth L. Schmitz

6. Suffering, Metaphysics, and Nietzsche’s Path to the Holy
Daniel R. Ahern

7. Can ‘Creation’ Be a Metaphysical Concept?
Peter Harris

8. Metaphysics West and East: Bosanquet and Sankara
Gautam Satapathy

Part Three. On the Road to Metaphysics — Freedom, Agency, and Existence

9. Metaphysics and the Origins of Arendt’s Account of Evil and Human Freedom
Charles Page

10. Agents, Causes, and Explanations: The Idea of a Metaphysical System
Leslie Armour

11. Speculative and Analytical Philosophy, Theories of Existence, and the Generalization of the Mathematical Function
James Bradley

Part Four. Metaphysical Theories in a Contemporary Context

12. Jacques Maritain and the Metaphysics of Plato
Fran O’Rourke

13. Metaphysics and Idealism
W. J. Mander

14. Empiricism: Principles and Problems
Fred Wilson

Part Five. The Possibility of Metaphysics

15. Metaphysics as “De Insolubilibus”
Martin M. Tweedale

16. Designing Metaphysics
Elizabeth Trott

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